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B. ROBBINS.

ANCHOR SUPPORT.

(No Model.)

Patented Feb. 28, 1882.

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UNIT D STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELisHAnoBBINs, or WoRcEsTEn, MASSKOHUSETTS.

ANCHOR-SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 254,160, dated February 28, 1882.

' Application filed December 8, 1881. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ELISHA ROBB1Ns,'of the city and county of Worcester, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Navigable Vessels; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a top view, and Fig. 2 a side welevation, of the fore part of the hull of a navigable vessel with my invention applied thereto,

such invention being intended to aid in supporting an anchor and to t'acilitateits discharge from the rail of the vessel.

In carrying out my said invention I combine with the hull and its rail and cat-head astep arranged some distance below the cat-head and extended from the side of the hull, snch step being to support the stock of the anchor when the fluke is upon the rail and the anchor is drawn up nearly to the cat-head.

In the drawings, A denotes the hull, a being the rail and b the cat-head. The step is shown at c, it being a shelf or projection, usually made somewhat concave or hollow on its upper side, or there sufficiently socketed to receive the lower end of the anchor-stock d and to sustain it in place while the fluke of the anchor B may be on the rail, and the shank-ring may be drawn up to its highest position under the cat-head. Y

In tripping the anchor the step supports it in a manner to allow it to turn so as to cast its fluke off the rail. lt also operates to sustain the anchor in a manner to lessen its weight andfriction on the rail and the consequent wear of the latter.

My invention not only obviates all necessity for a common anehor-tripper, as hereinbefore cited, but is advantageous, as above explained.

I claim as my invention- The combination, with the hull, rail, and ca thead of a navigable vessel, of a step, substantially as described, arranged below the cathead and projecting from the hull, and serving not only to support the lower end of the stock of an anchor, when such anchor is catted and resting on the rail, but to facilitate, in manner as explained, the trippingof the anchor.

ELISHA ROBBINS.

\Vitnesses:

R. H. EDDY, E. B. PRATT. 

